Release of a new installment of ALMA Test data

Nov 11, 2015

A new installment of ALMA Test data is available. This release contains data on Pluto taken in Support of the NASA New Horizons Mission. These data were taken as "test data" and contain basic scripts for calibration and imaging. Five (5) epochs of data are being released at this time:

The major goal of the observations were to determine the position and parallax of the Pluto system. Each observation consisted primarily of phase referencing observations between the calibrator J1911-2006 and Pluto with a secondary calibrator J1924-2105. The phase cycle time was about 7 min, with 5.5 min scan on Pluto, and the total experiment extent was 80 min. The longest baseline was about 500 m. Four spw's were used, each of 2 GHz, centered at 336, 338, 348, 350 GHz (ALMA Band 7). The strong calibrator J1924-2914 was used as the bandpass calibrator and the absolute flux density calibrator.